Article represents to the reader a little widespread subtropical culture: to Zimin, which main feature – relative frost resistance.
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In South careful to the Crimea, in Georgia, in the south of Krasnodar Krai the little-known fruit plant – azimina grows. Its homeland – the USA and Canada. In the south of Ukraine cultivate only one look aziminy – the most cold-resistant trekhlopastny.
Plant this small (5-8 m) photophilous, a tree with shirokopiramidalny evenly oblistvenny krone. Serya a bark of a trunk and branches smooth, and young escapes densely trimmed.
On branches on short band shanks settle down light green oblong yajcevidnye, pointed at top and the leathery leaves which were narrowed to a shank. They very large (at length – 22-35 cm, at width – 7-12 cm). The bottom and top parties of young trees are strongly broken a set: from below are trimmed, and from above glossy, brilliant. On last year’s escapes at the same time with leaves in their bosoms in April-May (depending on weather) are dismissed brown-purple kolokolchaty a flower. Plants look in a blossoming season very decoratively.
And in September-October fruits ripen. They are juicy, a cylindrical form, than remind bananas, with the twirled ends, different in size (7-9 cm at length, 4-5 cm at width) is powerful from 67 to 200 grams, are collected in a soplodiya on 2-8, before maturing at first dark green, then brighten, become pale yellow, then brown. They can be removed from a tree still firm, but in this case it is useful to put fruits in the place shined with the sun at some o’clock. Then they don’t grow mouldy, grow ripe in a lezhka within 10-12 days.
The cover of a fruit is thin, pulp very gentle kremovaty or light yellow color with sharp ananasno-strawberry aroma. In them contains to 8-17 % of sugar and 27,7 % of ascorbic acid.
Fruits aziminy use fresh, it is possible to preserve with sugar. At conservation them cut lengthways and delete seeds. Then on a bottom of a glass jar fill sugar and stack fruits layers, pouring them granulated sugar. All sugar it is required as much, how many and fruits. To bank close tightly and fruits store in such condition. From them it is possible to cook also jam, jam, drinks.
This breed skoroplodny, starts to fructify for 3-4 year. To make multiple copies it it is possible seeds, layers, root offsprings and an inoculation. Seeds for the winter should be stratified, and in the spring shoots raspikirovat in ridges. Seeds sprout slowly. Young seyanets are sensitive to light and dry air, won’t reach yet height of 15-30 cm them leave in a zateneniye.
In the Novokakhovsky pilot farm Nikitsky botanical soda in the course of test noted very important property aziminy – frost resistance. Here these trees maintained temperature to a minus of 26 degrees. And it caused interest to azimine not only in gardeners of Yuzhnoberezhya, but also separate regions of the foothill and steppe Crimea.
(On materials garden ogorodnicheskix editions).